Roots Music Report

About the Band

The band and the recording Time Within Itself --- Hearing this crackling big band recording -- so full of swagger and conviction and transcendent playing throughout -- it's hard to believe that it's drummer / composer Michael Waldrop's debut as a big band leader. No newcomer to the game, he paid dues as a working musician in New York and Chicago before pursuing an academic career, earning a masters at the University of Memphis and his doctorate at North Texas, where he played in the famed One O'Clock Lab Band. He also put in ten years with Jack Cooper's Memphis-based Jazz Orchestra of the Delta, developing the relationship that would lead Cooper to lend his prodigious arranging skills to Waldrop's set of originals for this recording.

Discography

Time Frames Label: Origin Classical Genres: Jazz Styles: Jazz Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Fractals Jazz Jazz 2 Dem Dakar (Parables) Jazz Jazz 3 Three Mediterranean Views: León De Palamidi Jazz Jazz 4 Three Mediterranean Views: Notte a Venezia Jazz Jazz 5 Three Mediterranean Views: Château D'If Jazz Jazz 6 Almost Beyond Jazz Jazz 7 Delineations Jazz Jazz 8 Katrina's Path: Brazil Jazz Jazz 9 Katrina's Path: Cuba Jazz Jazz 10 Katrina's Path: New Orleans Jazz Jazz 11 Hollow Jazz Jazz 12 Sixth Chakra Jazz Jazz 13 Incoming Jazz Jazz 14 Tortoise Efficiency Jazz Jazz 15 Continuity Jazz Jazz

Time Within Itself Details Label: Origin Records Genres: Jazz Styles: Big Band, Jazz Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre